General George Patton believed war was chaos and he was born to master it. While other generals led from comfortable headquarters far…

  September 19th, 1944. The fog shrouded fields near Araor, France. First Left tenant Merwin Men of the 37th Tank Battalion gripped his…

  September 1944, Arakur, Eastern France. The Panzer Ace Hedman Ernst Barkman is commanding his Panther tank and steel Fortress whose frontal armor…

  At 1423 on September 19th, 1944, Corporal Thomas Bennett crouched behind his M5 3-in anti-tank gun in a hedro near St. Low,…

  July 5th, 1945. Harry Truman sat in the Oval Office reading a letter that made his jaw tighten. Henry Morganthaw Jr. Roosevelt’s…

  July 22nd, 1943, George Patton stood in his command tent in Sicily, reading a report that made his jaw clench. Terry Allen’s…

  On August 7, 1943, in a dusty command post on the slopes of Mount Etnner in Sicily, a 56-year-old general received a…

  Get these clowns out of my camp. That is the exact phrase an American colonel used to describe Australian SAS operators in…

  It is 27th May 1941 and the Atlantic Ocean churns beneath a sky the color of wet slate. Aboard HMS Ark Royal…

  On this episode of What’s Going On with Shipping, a Russian ship captain has found guilty of manslaughter by gross negligence after…